Battle Media Website goes live!

Battle Media Website is Live!!!

After weeks of work, Battle Media's Website has gone live for the whole world to see. We have tonnes of pages and info as well as animations and art work galore! Check out our website at http://www.tinyurl.com/battlemedia

Here's a sneak peak at our website

Take a look at our survey at http://www.tinyurl.com/battlemediasurvey

Kidsline Visit

Kidsline visit

On Friday 8th August Kidsline met one room 7 group ,Battle media and another room 9 group.The Kidsline visitors were 3 ladies, Marian,Brittany and Sirat.

First everyone introduced themselves and some of their intersets through a game. Then Kidsline requested for questions and to circle any we had any information about. So for the next hour or so we were busy talking about information in that time all the students ate loads of Fruit Bursts. we also recived bands with a slogan and Kidslines's number along with their name.After we filled an evaluation sheet. Afterwards Marian and Brittany showed a play about how most of the kidsline calls look like then Marian asked some last minute question. Everyone who answered got a Fruit Burst .I got one too. Meeting Kidsline was an informative and exciting experience. Fingers cross we get that chance again.

\By Dilshad Singh



Addiction to Technology

Addiction to Technology:

You're in the middle of reading a long, important document, but suddenly find you can't concentrate. It's not because the topic is snore-inducing or because it's chocolate o'clock, but due to a tiny, red light, flashing insistently in the corner of your eye. A BlackBerry silently screaming for attention forces you to stop reading to see what the messagesays. Two minutes later, you do the same again.
Whether it's an iPhone or a trilling landline or a pinging email, the latest technology interrupts us all the time. But if you've ever wondered exactly what effect the interruptions have when your doing any important work, research by academics at the University of Kent is a worthy interruption.

By: Kaur

Class Debates

In room 7 we have been doing debates for oral language to improve speaking to an audience. Our debates have diffrent topics ex. schools should ban youtube or all people should be vegeterians ect. Each topic has a 'for' group and an 'against' group, each group has three members we each have to write a paragraph with 2 or 3 reasons about the topic.

By: Tiffany

Media Design School Visit - By Martin

On Wednesday the 6th of August the Fazeclan group had visited the Media Design School on 92 Albert Street, Auckland Central City. 

Once we arrived at the front reception we met Ms Analiese Jackson, the chief executive in Marketing and Design, and Mr Mike Porter, professional gamer and programmer.
We spent some time observing the ornaments such as:

1) A limited collector's edition of The Last of Us, exclusive to PS3 and remastered for the PS4
2) The world's first-ever virtual-reality gaming experience, the legendary Oculus Rift
3) The classic chrome gun from critically- acclaimed game of the year, Portal 2

They guided to Room 18, the Boarding Room, and taught us lots about gaming and it's educational benefits. With games like:

1) Assassin's Creed - Teaches about history, since the game is based on true historic events, and that's how Mr Porter's son was interested in the Crusades (1191 - 1257)

2) Call of Duty/ Battlefield - Teaches Real-time team tactics and strategy, teamwork is the vital key to victory in the game

Mr Porter had told us about the Minecraft Creativity Awards, hosted by Media Design School, the aim was to find aspiring kids who had a passion for Minecraft, and they would had to build a structure/ building from New Zealand, for instance, a student had built Auckland Museum, and won an award for creativity.

Mr Porter had  also taught us how an aspiring Minecrafter had built a 3D- imported, plugin legitimate computer, built with it's own GPU, enabling it to calculate real-time numbers, in game!

After Mr Porter's period, Ms Jackson had showed us around the building, including students programming games, and the PC Gaming room, built for programming and gaming.

We were sad to leave but overall we had a great time with the team.

Check out the awesome lecturers and programmers at: http://www.mediadesignschool.com/courses/game-art-programming/tutors/

Class Councellors

Class counselors are all around the school they help people with problems suchs as fights arguments disagreements and many other things

As a class councellor its is hard to jungle school work and class councellor work like preparing events like spotty day,mid winter dance and the polar bear dare and many other things that are coming up in the year

This is my blog on class councellor work

by David

Young Children's Health (YCH)

This term we are studying the impact of technology on young children's health as linked to our group name. Our main topic is the impact of technology on society. We are looking at different ways to prevent illnesses like obesity, poor eyesight, sleeping and mood disorders and many more from the over use of technology. Many children have been effected by these terrible illnesses.

Our hot question is to identify the impact technology has had on children's health over the past few years, examine how much H.I.S students rely on technology daily, and what they rely on it for, and propose a plan to encourage students to stay active, maintain their health and to unplug theselves from technology.
We've researched alot and are working really well through our hot question. For the last part of our hot question, it links to our social action - #Off The Grid H.I.S.

We are working really well throughout our inquiry topic, as a group. We are currently focusing most on our Social Action which will take part in Week 5 of this term. Feel free to check out our #Off The Grid H.I.S blog post for more information.

By Caureen.

Holiday competition

During the holidays our class had a photo competition and we all had to take photos of what we did during the school holidays. Last week Martin put all our photos into a slide show and we presented our photos last friday. The winner of our photo competition was Samantha and she won a Dominos voucher for a free pizza. Here are some of the photos:

#Off The Grid H.I.S - Social Action

YCH (young childrens health) group in our class are working on their social action which is #Off The Grid H.I.S. We are planning to do a technology free week to help raise awareness of young childrens health that is affected by the over use of technology. As a reward for the students that participate in it we are going to buy new sports equipment with the money we raise and have a soprts day so that we can use the new equipment. To help with this we made a slideshow and Caureen and Charlie spoke in the assembly telling the school what we are going to. We are sending newsletters out this week so that they can get people to sponser. We are looking forward to doing the technology week.